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  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    The Penguin Book of Indian Poets — a feast of literature

    Jeet Thayil’s selection of poems written in English is a dazzling collection vast in ambition and scope

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Lunch with the FT
    Writer Ocean Vuong: ‘Beauty is medicinal to me. It’s not useless’

    The Vietnamese-American poet on the legacy of war, navigating grief — and turning invisibility into a superpower

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Review
    Spring Has Come Back Again by Rainer Maria Rilke — our dance with nature
  • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
    Review
    Will and Testament by Taras Shevchenko — a Ukrainian poem that resonates today

    Prescient words from a freed serf — born on this day, March 9, in 1814 — considered the national poet of Ukraine

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    Review
    The poem: ‘Mr Hill and me’, by Alison Brackenbury

    From ‘Thorpeness’, this work of memory captures the rhythms of the rural English landscapes

  • Tuesday, 8 February, 2022
    The Poem: ‘Maize’ by Olive Senior

    From ‘Hurricane Watch’, the new collection by the Jamaican Poet Laureate

  • Friday, 17 December, 2021
    Amanda Gorman
    ‘War: what, is it good?’ — a new poem by Amanda Gorman

    Nearly a year on from her rousing performance at the Biden inauguration, the US youth poet laureate publishes her first full collection of poems. In this extracted piece, she reflects on the interrelated crises of conflicts and pandemics

  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Making Darkness Light — a seductive imagining of the life of Milton

    Filled with vivid vignettes and personal explorations, this is far from a conventional biography

  • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
    FT SeriesThe home in 50 objects from around the world
    The home in 50 objects from around the world #9: Pablo Neruda’s ships’ figurehead collection

    The pieces connect with recurring poetic landscapes and themes in his work: the sea, voyages, women

  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
    Best books of 2021: Poetry

    Maria Crawford selects her must-read titles

  • Tuesday, 26 October, 2021
    Nilanjana Roy
    When women give voice to women

    A newly translated collection of poetry by a writer revered in her native India offers a sense of sisterhood

  • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
    How To Spend It
    How I Spend It: John Cooper Clarke on how Elvis ‘out-punked everything’

    For the Salford-born poet, Elvis will always be ‘king’

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    The poem: Autumn by Louise Glück

    From ‘Winter Recipes from the Collective’, the Nobel laureate’s latest collection

  • Friday, 30 July, 2021
    The Poem: ‘The Death of Everybody’, by David Hare

    A new work by the English playwright, poet and essayist ahead of his forthcoming book ‘We Travelled: Essays and Poems’

  • Saturday, 26 June, 2021
    FT SeriesSummer books 2021
    Summer books of 2021: Poetry

    Maria Crawford selects her best mid-year reads

  • Friday, 18 June, 2021
    The Poem: Sister Iggy Deejay

    From ‘Mother Muse’, the new collection by the former Jamaican Poet Laureate

  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
    ReviewTelevision
    Simon Armitage reflects in A Pandemic Poem: Where Did the World Go? on BBC2

    Poetry is a transformative art and Armitage a silky phrasemaker but conclusions feel premature

  • Friday, 21 May, 2021
    Collecting
    Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021
  • Friday, 14 May, 2021
    Heidi Seaborn
    From business to poetry — a road less travelled

    In her teens, Heidi Seaborn was sure she would become a poet — but life got in the way. Forty years on, could she make her youthful dream a reality?

  • Monday, 19 April, 2021
    The poem: ‘Poem on a bike’ by John Gallas

    From the New Zealand-born poet’s forthcoming collection ‘The Extasie’

  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    The Poem: on Keats’ melancholy, mortality and more

    Rachael Boast’s ‘To One Who Has Ceased to Be’ was commissioned to mark the 200th anniversary of the Romantic poet’s death

  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
    InterviewFilm
    Giving Keats new life 200 years after his death

    Starring actors including Damien Lewis, a film streaming tonight imagines the poet’s last weeks in February 1821

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    The poem: ‘Villette’ by Holly Pester

    From the British poet’s debut collection, ‘Comic Timing’

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    ReviewTelevision
    Robert Burns: No Holds Bard offers a frank assessment of the Scottish poet

    A Sky Arts documentary paints a refreshingly nuanced picture of the rogue and lyricist

  • Saturday, 2 January, 2021
    The Poem: The First Last Light in the Sky by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

    From the forthcoming collection ‘Living Weapon’, the prizewinning US poet’s first UK publication

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